King and emperor : a new life of Charlemagne
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King and emperor : a new life of Charlemagne
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- 2019
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- Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814, Charlemagne, HISTORY -- Medieval, Kings and rulers, Biographies, France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography, France -- History -- To 987, Europe -- History -- 392-814, France -- Kings and rulers, Europe, France
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xi, 667 pages : 24 cm
A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day Europe. Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long reign. Warfare and accident, vermin and weather have destroyed much of the evidence for his rule in the twelve centuries since his death, but a remarkable amount still survives. Janet L. Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charlemagne and sifts through the evidence to come as close as we can to understanding the man and his motives. Nelson has an extraordinary knowledge of the sources and much of the book is a sort of detective story, prying into and interpreting fascinating material and often obdurate scraps, from prayerbooks to skeletons, gossip to artwork. Above all, Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped duchies and counties, rebuilt and founded towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the new 'Emperor governing the Roman Empire'. His successors in some ways to the present day have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy or subvert Charlemagne's legacy. Nelson gets us as close as we can ever hope to come to the real figure, as understood in his own time
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Introduction -- 2. Family stories Charles might have known -- 3. The child in the picture -- 4. Family fortunes -- 5. Charles in Italy -- 6. Peace and war: 774-9 -- 7. The family deployed, '... all Saxony subjugated' -- 8. Boundary-crossings -- 9. Franks, Bavarians and new thinking: 787-9 -- 10. The Regensburg Years -- 11. Saxons, Saracens, Northmen and the Council of Frankfurt: 792-4 -- 12. The beginning of the end of the Saxon Wars: 792-9 -- 13. Interesting times, dangerous times -- 14. Fin de siecle -- debut de siecle: Romanian gubernans imperium -- 15. The Aachen Years -- 16. 'Charles, by the bounty of divine grace emperor and augustus ... to his beloved and honourable brother Michael glorious emperor and augustus'
A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all rulers, and the father of present-day Europe. Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. His strength of character was felt to be remarkable from early in his long reign. Warfare and accident, vermin and weather have destroyed much of the evidence for his rule in the twelve centuries since his death, but a remarkable amount still survives. Janet L. Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charlemagne and sifts through the evidence to come as close as we can to understanding the man and his motives. Nelson has an extraordinary knowledge of the sources and much of the book is a sort of detective story, prying into and interpreting fascinating material and often obdurate scraps, from prayerbooks to skeletons, gossip to artwork. Above all, Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped duchies and counties, rebuilt and founded towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the new 'Emperor governing the Roman Empire'. His successors in some ways to the present day have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy or subvert Charlemagne's legacy. Nelson gets us as close as we can ever hope to come to the real figure, as understood in his own time
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Introduction -- 2. Family stories Charles might have known -- 3. The child in the picture -- 4. Family fortunes -- 5. Charles in Italy -- 6. Peace and war: 774-9 -- 7. The family deployed, '... all Saxony subjugated' -- 8. Boundary-crossings -- 9. Franks, Bavarians and new thinking: 787-9 -- 10. The Regensburg Years -- 11. Saxons, Saracens, Northmen and the Council of Frankfurt: 792-4 -- 12. The beginning of the end of the Saxon Wars: 792-9 -- 13. Interesting times, dangerous times -- 14. Fin de siecle -- debut de siecle: Romanian gubernans imperium -- 15. The Aachen Years -- 16. 'Charles, by the bounty of divine grace emperor and augustus ... to his beloved and honourable brother Michael glorious emperor and augustus'
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